Clive D.W. Feather wrote:
Rob Seaman said:
Rather, the often repeated canard that civilians don't give a fig for
the actual position of the sun in the sky implies that it is
precisely apparent solar time that only queer ducks like astronomers
care about. Mean solar time is what civilians DO ca
Rob Seaman said:
> Rather, the often repeated canard that civilians don't give a fig for
> the actual position of the sun in the sky implies that it is
> precisely apparent solar time that only queer ducks like astronomers
> care about. Mean solar time is what civilians DO care about.
Only *very*
Suffered a disk crash and lost my response to this. Don't have the
heart to recreate it in detail. You all know the sorts of things I
would say, anyway. Might make an amusing parlor game to write your
own replies in my - ahem - "style" :-)
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
neither "local time" nor "c
Rob Seaman wrote:
I said:
all parties must certainly agree that civil time (as we know it) IS
mean solar time.
Ed says:
saying that it "IS" civil time is probably a bit strong.
"Probably a bit strong" is not precisely a staunch denial.
It's not meant to be a staunch denial. I'm mostl
On Thu 2006-01-05T08:18:11 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp hath echoed Rob:
> Which is why the longitude conference decided on a 1 hour quantum.
No, they did not.
The delegates gratuitously offered existing schemes (the US railroads
being one touted long and hard by some guy named Allen) along with
prop
Rob Seaman scripsit:
> Rather, the often repeated canard that civilians don't give a fig for
> the actual position of the sun in the sky implies that it is
> precisely apparent solar time that only queer ducks like astronomers
> care about. Mean solar time is what civilians DO care about.
Most c
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rob Seaman writes:
>I said:
>
>> all parties must certainly agree that civil time (as we know it) IS
>> mean solar time.
>
>Ed says:
>
>> saying that it "IS" civil time is probably a bit strong.
>
>"Probably a bit strong" is not precisely a staunch denial.
>
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